Reminiscent of Epyx software on the Commodore 64 circa 1985, without having to wait twenty minutes for the game to load. :p This is an awesome game. I'm not much into sports games but this one is a gem. 6/5
Wow, so many things to hate about this genre of game. First, it's as unlike playing music as you can get because of latency issues. Second, it trivializes music into a couple of basic key presses that have no correlation to music, (chords 1,2,3,4 instead of relative voicing like 1,4,5) exacerbated by the more or less arbitrary decision by the coder as to what notes and beats are important. Third, the music is always designed to appeal to 14 year olds, but the gaming populace in general is actually older than that, and fourth, it is destined to be bearable at best to anyone who doesn't usually listen to thrash metal. For the first time in a long time I'm taking a pass on the first BOTD of the week.
Devs who can't be bothered to fix the weak spots in their game call it "challenging" and pretend that was their intent all along, but a schlocky game is still a schlocky game.